NíDara, who writes over at the Oaken Roots Hermitage, recently asked me: I know a key part of devotional hearthcraft is that every activity is sacred, but how do you find a balance between internet stuff, daily responsibilities, and deity relationships, especially from a neurodivergent point of view? Neurodiversity is, well, diverse. I can only … Continue reading Neurodivergence and Doing the Work, pt 1.
Deities, Devotional Hearthcraft, and You
Hearthcraft and the various practices that comprise it - kitchen witchcraft, cottage witchcraft, herbalism, protection and prosperity magic, and many others - is a growing topic of interest, to my delight. I first came across the term in 2009 in Arin Hiscock-Murphy's The Way of the Hedge Witch, later updated as The House Witch. My … Continue reading Deities, Devotional Hearthcraft, and You
The Core of Devotional Hearthcraft
I've been thinking of how to describe this homebrewed path I'm on called devotional hearthcraft. The premise is simple: take one part devotional polytheism and one part hearthcraft, then shake it up really hard in a mason jar to see what comes out. It sounds like what it says on the tin, which is intentional. … Continue reading The Core of Devotional Hearthcraft
House Spirits, Please Help With Chores
Chores are not my natural friend. Like many people - most people, I suspect - organization, cleaning, and all the executive function-driven tasks required to make a home run smoothly do not come easily to me. Growing up, chores were a punishment that led to weekend dread. I learned how to do a lot of … Continue reading House Spirits, Please Help With Chores
A Menu for Imbolc 2024
As a Brighid kid, Imbolc tends to be a big deal for me. It's the most important day of the year tied only with Samhain. When planning for Imbolc, we started with the most important aspect of any festival: the food. I call my at-home practice Devotional Hearthcraft and it very much is informed by … Continue reading A Menu for Imbolc 2024
My Home Is My Temple
I have really felt the lack of a spiritual group or space recently. Even before the pandemic, Dragon and I were uncertain about having a spiritual home. We enjoyed Metropolitan Community Church, affectionately called "gay church," which has a radical vision of Christianity and queer liberation. (Sylvia Rivera's ashes are on the altar; one of … Continue reading My Home Is My Temple
I Want to Be a Tea Monk
One of the more difficult things about my call to priesthood is not having a clear image of what I want to do and be that is also something that feels possible in the place and time I live. If I had no constraints, I know exactly what I'd do: I'd be a tea monk. … Continue reading I Want to Be a Tea Monk
This Post Made Possible By COVID-19
I ended last year with COVID. It wasn't as bad as the first time I'd gotten it back in April 2020 - then, we absolutely should have gone to a hospital, but the world was, as you may recall, in a death spiral. Under no circumstances were we to leave our home unless one of … Continue reading This Post Made Possible By COVID-19
2024: The Year Blogging Happens
Hello, dear friends. It's been about five years since my last update. I started this blog in 2010, the same year I picked the nickname Sage to identify myself in Pagan and polytheist spaces. I don't think of it as my "spiritual name" so much as yet another name to call myself in a different … Continue reading 2024: The Year Blogging Happens
How Not to Explode with Anxiety in a Time of Ecological Disaster
I was born in 1990, bare months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The first news story I remember is watching reports of the Oklahoma City bombings, which someone had left on the TV where five-year-old me could see. Like other Nineties kids I grew up with a slew of environmentalist entertainment, from recycling … Continue reading How Not to Explode with Anxiety in a Time of Ecological Disaster
Sage and Starshine 